Built consumer and merchant apps with two friends in evenings and weekends, reaching around 1,000 users, 30 restaurants, and roughly 400 group orders.
• Implemented custom realtime notifications for group interactions over WebSockets.
• Shipped split payments with Stripe fee handling for group purchases.
Pine started as an evenings-and-weekends build with two friends. We shipped both a consumer app and a merchant app and saw early traction with group ordering.
Reached roughly 1,000 users, around 30 restaurants, and about 400 completed group orders.
Built realtime interaction updates for group orders with a custom WebSocket flow.
Implemented split payments with Stripe including fee handling.
